Top 15 Jean Cocteau Quotes

Living is a horizontal fall.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Art is science made clear.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.